Steven L. Fernandes, PhD

Assistant Professor

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Contact

StevenFernandes@creighton.edu
College of Arts and Sciences
Computer Science, Design, Journalism
Computer Science & Informatics
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Steven L. Fernandes, PhD

Assistant Professor

Steven Fernandes is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, where he teaches and mentors students in computer science, data science, and health informatics. His research focuses on developing advanced deep learning models for computer vision, natural language processing, and medical imaging applications. Prior to joining Creighton, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Central Florida in the Department of Computer Science, contributing to projects funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, working on National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded projects in deep learning and medical image processing.

Research Focus

Deep Learning
Computer Vision
Natural Language Processing
Deep Reinforcement Learning

Department

Computer Science, Design and Journalism

Position

Assistant Professor

Books

  • Computer Vision – ECCV 2022 Workshops, Proceedings
    Fernandes Steven L., etal Attribution-Based Confidence Metric for Detection of Adversarial Attacks on Breast Histopathological Images [Book Chapter] 2023

Presentations

  • Training for Difficult Healthcare Conversations using an AI Chatbot 2025
  • Training nursing students in difficult conversations using AI chatbots 2025
  • Enhancing Difficult Conversation Skills Using an AI Chatbot 2025
  • Navigating Difficult Conversations in Healthcare: The Use of AI Chatbots in Training Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing 2025
  • Development of Synthetic Palliative Care Data through Generative Adversarial Networks 2025
  • Navigating difficult conversations in healthcare: The use of AI chatbots in training undergraduate and graduate nursing students 2025
  • AI-Driven Simulation and Training for Intimate Partner Violence 2025
  • Enhancing Difficult Conversation Skills Using an AI Chatbot 2025
  • Enhancing Compassionate Palliative Care with AI 2024
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Grants

  • TAKAI: Teaching Human Anatomy with Artificial Intelligence/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant

  • Interpretable Deepfake Detection: Leveraging Feature Attribution and One-Shot Test-Time Training for Improved Confidence Metrics and Visual Explainability/Sponsor: University of Nebraska, Lincoln/UNL

  • Enhancing Compassionate Palliative Care with AI: Respecting Human Dignity and Cultural Diversity/Sponsor: Kingfisher Institute

  • Navigating Difficult Conversations in Healthcare: The Use of AI Chatbots in Training Undergraduate and Graduate Nursing Students/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA

  • AI Enhanced Fall Prevention/Sponsor: American Nurses Association

  • Enhancing Pharmacy Student Skills through AI-Driven Patient Counseling Simulations/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

  • Integrating AI-Generated Feedback with the C-ICE 2.0 to Evaluate Interprofessional Team Behaviors in Emergency Simulations/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

  • Developing a Custom Chatbot for Medical School Personal Statements/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE

  • Enhancing AI Feedback for Medical School Personal Statements/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA

  • Development of a BMI/BP Calculator and Data Management System to Improve Health Outcomes/Sponsor: Criss Beirne Faculty Research Award

  • AI Chatbot for Training Nursing Students in De-escalating Verbal Aggression/Sponsor: Criss Beirne Faculty Research Award